Circular basket with flared rim [a] and hat shaped cover [b]. Purple and blue diamond pattern on natural straw colored ground.
baskets (containers)
straw (plant material)
Basket
From East Africa (Handwritten on green paper tag-appears to be written by James Duncan Phillips or Nannie B. Phillips)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
2 1/4 (H), 5 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.2260AB
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